Associate Director of SY Tobacco Control Alliance

4352 - Associate Director of SY Tobacco Control Alliance

We are embarking on an exciting journey to build on the excellent regional collaboration on tobacco control and help create a smokefree South Yorkshire. Backed by strong commitment from the local Directors of Public Health and Integrated Care Board, the Alliance aims to tackle the single largest preventable cause of disease and early death in our population. South Yorkshire has some of the highest smoking rates in the country, making the opportunities to save lives and reduce inequalities huge.

As the key leadership role in this programme, the Associate Director of the South Yorkshire Tobacco Control Alliance will provide strategic oversight for comprehensive tobacco control across a population of 1.5m people. Working independently, you will lead on development, delivery, and evaluation of the whole programme, while looking to build and managing a small team. You will be the primary point of contact for decision makers and the media and will act as a strong advocate for action on tobacco control.

Deliver high quality strategic leadership, including programme development, delivery, and evaluation.

Act as a lead specialist and primary contact for tobacco control in the NHS and the South Yorkshire partners.

Have excellent communication skills, acting as a media spokesperson and a strong advocate for tobacco control.

Lead on policy setting for the programme, building consensus amongst partners.

Have responsibility for the programme budget.

Be able to build and manage a small team should the funds and opportunity arise.

Form and maintain networks, supporting the local system to share learning and improve services.

Commission, and provide specialist input into mass media campaigns aimed at population-level behaviour change.

Develop and oversee a programme to tackle illicit tobacco.

Work with academic partners to embed research and evaluation.

Progress reporting to senior leadership forums both within Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and across the system.

• Evidence of extensive experience working in a senior leadership role in Tobacco Control
• Evidence of working with people affected by Smoking across service improvement initiatives and the application of co-production techniques.
• Experience of managing people and a team including recruitment, selection and appraisal.
• Evidence of leading large scale public health programmes work through effective partnership working and influencing major stakeholders to effectively to build consensus and collective decision-making environments, across a wide range of organisations.
• Experience and knowledge of working with the voluntary sector.
• Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive and sometimes hostile environment.
• Knowledge and experience of service improvement development and commissioning
• Numerate, with an ability to analyse, interpret, make connections and present complex information clearly. Experience of deciphering and communicating complex issues to a range of different audiences including statutory bodies and groups, public meetings and the media. Expertly leading the production of key reports and papers to positively influence and support strategic decisions for reconfiguration of services
• Experience of managing and mitigating risks.
• Knowledge and experience of the public health environment and roles and responsibilities across the South Yorkshire ICP system including LA, VCF sector and the NHS across both primary and secondary care.
• Proven track record in developing successful business cases, options appraisals, strategies and plans
• In around 100 words please describe what Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important.
• In around 100 words please describe what motivates you to do a good job.

• Sufficient understanding of key statutory organisational issues including HR, logistics, informatics to assess key requirements and impacts
• Understanding of social and political environment
• Knowledge and awareness of key national policy initiatives in relation to Tobacco Control
• Understanding of the broader framework of the NHS reforms including ICB/ ICP, alongside current policies in relation to health and social care
• Knowledge and awareness of national policy initiatives with regards to Tobacco Control specifically.
• Knowledge and understanding of the key issues faced by people affected by Smoking
• Knowledge and understanding of person-centred care and advocacy.
• Understanding of corporate governance, accountability, stewardship of public money and principles of good scrutiny.
• Experience of monitoring budgets, business planning processes and securing funding from a range of difference sources.
• Proven successful planning and organisation experience.
• Performance management, including monitoring of delivery to timescales.
• Ability to efficiently prioritise own workload and the workload of others whilst working within very tight deadlines and…